Installing Fedora 17

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 06/20/2012 06:06:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> 
> >On 06/19/2012 09:44:39 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> On 06/20/2012 11:43 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> >> > Hmmm ... would that that was the problem. AFAIK Anaconda takes 
> >> input
> >> 
> >> > only in MB. (By whatever definition, the darn thing still
> crashes.)
> >> 
> >> FWIW, I just installed a test system in a VM.  I have a 137GB
> virtual
> >> disk.
> >> 
> >> I modified the partitions by deleting the configuration and
> creating
> >> my own.  I
> >> created a /boot using 105000 which would be 105GB give or take.  I
> >> defined the
> >> remaining as an LVM Physical partition and then put swap in an LVM
> >> Logical Volume
> >> with a size of 1GB and the rest gave to /.
> >> 
> >> No crash....
> >> 
> >> [egreshko at f17t ~]$ uname -r
> >> 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686
> >> [egreshko at f17t ~]$ df -h
> >> Filesystem                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >> rootfs                     29G  3.7G   24G  14% /
> >> devtmpfs                  494M     0  494M   0% /dev
> >> tmpfs                     502M   96K  502M   1% /dev/shm
> >> tmpfs                     502M  1.3M  501M   1% /run
> >> /dev/mapper/vg_f17t-lv01   29G  3.7G   24G  14% /
> >> tmpfs                     502M     0  502M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> >> tmpfs                     502M     0  502M   0% /media
> >> /dev/sda1                 103G  1.7G   96G   2% /boot
> >> 
> >> Is that what you're trying to do?
> >
> >No. What I'm dealing with is a naked, never-before-seeing-fedora
> disk. 
> >(there are a couple of ntfs partitions put there by the 
> manufacturer.
> 
> >I'm allocating the remaining space.) I've done this with earlier 
> >Fedoras without any problems. 
> 
> Well what you seemed to be saying is that you were unable to create a
> 100GB boot partition. 
> Maybe you need to be more precise about the current disk content /
> configuration. 
> It seems it already must have a label and partition layout. 
> 
> If you try installing F16 do you get the same crash. 

The disk has two NTFS partitions, placed there by the mfg. Windows 7, 
FWIW. The rest of the disk is empty. t has not been partitioned or 
formatted, at least as far as Anaconda is concerned. Windows 7 does not 
see anything there, for that matter. Actually, I was attempting to 
create a 100GB / partition, but I don't believe that the name of the 
partition is significant.

What I'm going to try (after I finish re-wiring my solar panel array) 
is to start with a 500MB boot partition, that being the default offered 
by Anaconda. Perhaps if we get it started, it will play nice. If that 
doesn't work, I'll try a Fedora 16 dsk. That worked in a similar 
situation on another box.

The person who got stuck with the bug report on Bugzilla (https://
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833239, no additional info) tells 
me that I should be able to save the crash to a thumb drive. The box in 
question has only WiFi via a dongle, and it seems its too early in the 
process for that to be used.